Jaylen Brown didn’t need to tune in Friday night. To see the Heat again pushed to the end of the play-in plank. To watch Miami work around Jimmy Butler’s absence. To learn whether it would be the Heat or ninth-seeded Bulls coming to visit Sunday.
The Miami Heat’s first-round playoff opponent: the Boston Celtics. The Heat defeated the Chicago Bulls 112-91 on Friday night at Kaseya Center to clinch the Eastern Conference’s No. 8 playoff seed and a first-round series against the top-seeded Celtics.
NBA playoffs. This is their fourth postseason meeting since 2020. Miami beat Boston in the 2020 and 2023 East finals. The Celtics bested the Heat in the 2022 East finals.How the Celtics got here The Celtics fell behind 3-0 to the (again) eighth-seeded Heat in the 2023 Eastern Conference finals and forced a Game 7,
Immediate challenge conquered. Greater challenge ahead. Pushing past the Chicago Bulls a day after learning team leader Jimmy Butler would be lost for weeks with a knee injury, the reward for the Miami Heat for Friday night’s 112-91 win-or-go-home play-in victory is a first-round matchup against the league-best Boston Celtics.
How hard would you fight to win if winning meant a hugely harder battle ahead — one everyone seemed sure you would lose decisively? Perhaps even embarrassingly. And that you’d have to undertake this biggest of challenges without your biggest star and top scorer?
Heat defeated the Chicago Bulls in the play-in game to decide the eighth seed set to face Boston at the No. 1 seed. The knee injury to Jimmy Butler looms large ahead of the rematch between the two storied ball clubs when they met in the 2024 Eastern Conference Finals,
As they went into Friday night’s winner-take-all play-in game against the Chicago Bulls, the Miami Heat paused to reflect on the perseverance of their leader. While a sprained MCL in his right knee took Jimmy Butler out of Friday night’s showdown at Kaseya Center,
Pushing past the Chicago Bulls a day after learning team leader Jimmy Butler would be lost for weeks with a knee injury, the reward for the Miami Heat for Friday night’s 112-91
The Heat overcame the absences of Jimmy Butler and Terry Rozier to keep its season going with a win over the Bulls on Friday night. Takeaways and details
The Miami Heat shrugged off the absence of star forward Jimmy Butler to crush the Chicago Bulls 112-91 in their play-in eliminator on Friday and earn a clash with the
The Chicago Bulls have been one of the best clutch teams in the NBA in the 2023-24 season. But when their final play-in game was drawing to a close, the Miami Heat had ballooned a lead with a massive run in the game’s third quarter that the Bulls never managed to respond to.
The Bulls and Heat once again meet in the play-in tournament for a shot at the No. 8 seed in the playoffs for the second straight season. But this time, the Heat are missing their best player in Jimmy Butler,
The Miami Heat shrugged off the absence of star forward Jimmy Butler to crush the Chicago Bulls 112-91 in their play-in eliminator on Friday and earn a clash with the top-seeded Boston Celtics in the first round of the NBA playoffs.
Oddsmakers are all-in on the Celtics in the first round against the Heat. The Celtics are an absurd -5000 favorite at BetMGM Sportsbook to take down the Heat, who are +1700 to pull off the upset. Boston is the biggest pre-series favorite since the Bucks were -7500 to beat the Orlando Magic in Round 1 of the 2020 NBA Playoffs,
The Miami Heat have created some epic playoff upsets in recent years to define their organization and make an Urban Dictionary entry of, “Heat Culture.” This next chance would dwarf them all. The Heat were a fifth seed that beat the fourth (Indiana),
The Miami Heat have punched their ticket into the NBA Playoffs after beating the Chicago Bulls, 112-91, in the play-in tournament Friday night. However, they now have to face the No. 1 seeded Boston Celtics in the first round as stars Bam Adebayo,
The Celtics will get a chance at revenge in the first round of the NBA Playoffs after drawing the Miami Heat for their first-round series. Miami routed the Chicago Bulls 112-91 on Friday night despite playing without Jimmy Butler and Terry Rozier to secure the No.
As they went into Friday night’s winner-take-all play-in game against the Chicago Bulls, the Miami Heat paused to reflect on the perseverance of their leader. While a sprained MCL in his right knee took Jimmy Butler out of Friday night’s showdown at Kaseya Center,
The Chicago Bulls finished up yet another mediocre season on Friday night as they lost to the Miami Heat in the NBA play-in tournament. It was a disappointing season, so it was fitting for it to end in disappointing fashion.
With a dominant win over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night, the Miami Heat punched a ticket to Boston where they will face the Celtics in the first round of the NBA Playoffs starting this weekend. It's a rematch of the last two East finals.
The Miami Heat beat the Chicago Bulls, 112-91, in the NBA Play-in Tournament as they have won the eighth seed and the right to face the No. 1 seeded Boston Celtics in the first round of the NBA playoffs.
The Miami Heat made it all the way to the NBA Finals last year against the eventual champion Denver Nuggets. This year they will be hard-pressed to get past the play-in round. “This is something we want to do for
The Miami Heat was hit with a brutal blow as their main star in Jimmy Butler suffered an MCL sprain in the loss to the Philadelphia 76ers which will keep him out for several weeks. Before the do-or-die game against the Chicago Bulls in the NBA Play-In Tournament,
The Miami Heat’s season is on the line Friday night as they host the Chicago Bulls in the battle for the eighth seed where the winner takes on the Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs. It will be Miami’s second game in the play-in tournament after losing to the Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday
Following their Play-In win on Friday, the Miami Heat will be taking on the Boston Celtics in the playoffs for the fourth time in five years. Both teams performed quite differently throughout this season.
Butler was injured towards the end of the first quarter where he landed awkwardly on Philadelphia 76ers forward Kelly Oubre Jr. in the loss Wednesday night. He was noticeably in pain and even played 40 minutes that game,